It's almost as though these are different commentators (only about 20 of HN's thousands of users have commented on this story so far), different entities (yes,

It's almost as though these are different commentators (only about 20 of HN's thousands of users have commented on this story so far), different entities (yes, Apple Inc. is very different from Carnegie-Mellon University) and completely different patents (one covers a user-facing software feature and the other appears to deal with circuit design).